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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Chromium
Chromium
Disable Insecure And Obsolete Protocol Schemas
Disable Insecure And Obsolete Protocol Schemas
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Disable Insecure And Obsolete Protocol Schemas
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Each access to a URL is handled by the browser according to the URL's "scheme". The "scheme" of a URL is the section before the ":". The term "protocol" is often mistakenly used for a "scheme". The difference is that the scheme is how the browser handles a URL and the protocol is how the browser communicates with a service. To disable insecure and obsolete protocol schema, set
URLBlacklist
to
in the Chromium policy file.